Nguyen Phuoc Thong

Nguyen Phuoc Thong (1929-) was a Vietnamese professor of French literature and a North Vietnamese Army spy during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Nguyen Phuoc Thong was born in 1929, and he became a professor of French literature in French Indochina. He was imprisoned by France for assisting the Viet Minh in its guerrilla war against the French colonial authorities during the 1950s, but he was released after the end of the First Indochina War. During the Vietnam War, he spied for the North Vietnamese Army while he was living in South Vietnam, and he was imprisoned by the United States for his role in the underground resistance. On 13 August 2016, he met American Party for Socialism and Liberation activist Danny Shaw and shared his world view: "We are a peaceful people, unless you attack us. Then we are not peaceful."